Alex Pleiner wrote:Brian Bruns wrote:
Hiya,
ClamAV is in the news. Today heise.de published an article about web.de and there new use of ClamAV. That article (in German) can be found at:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-04.12.03-000/
For all non-Germans of you I made a quick translation of the German text. Please, I do not share any of those opinions, I repeat, I do not share any of those opinions. I just thought, you should know what heise.de is writing.
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To its customers web.de explained today that the scanner provides an effective protection of their mail account and PCs. This looks delusive after the c't test. Therefore heise online asked the anti virus expert Andreas Marx[5] of university Magdeburg to re-check the version 0.65 of ClamAV supposably used by web.de.
The results: Of 716 widely spread Viruses from the current "wildlist"[6] ClamAV only recognised 242, that is a quote of 33,8%. "You cannot call the virus protection of ClamAV as such", Marx commented the result. [...] Experts like Marx expressly point out that the Open-Source-Project ClamAV is currently in alpha stage and should not be used in production environments as the only virus scanner. web.de is doing the developers of ClamAv and there own customers a disservice. The company itself argues that they have resulted ver good recognition rates with internal tests.
How much you want to bet that they either #1 didn't bother to update the definitions #2 aren't telling people that they have some sort of connection or agreement with one of the big vendors? This like FUD to the extreme. I run ClamAV alone here and it has yet to let a single virus through.
I second that. Though I'm running clamav in conjunction with H+B EDV AntiVir and F-Prot (as secondary scanners), clam didn't let one virus slip through to AntiVir or F-Prot for at least the last 6 months.
I won't comment on Mr Marx's connections or agreements with AV vendors, but at least the Heise magazines (c't, iX and others) _do_ have the reputation of being independent.
I didn't compare clam's signature database against that WildList, and have only a couple of the mentioned viri in my quarantine directories. I'll write to Mr. Marx personally, trying to convince him to submit samples of these uncaught viri.
Side note to our non-german listers: c't and iX are both in the top 5, if not the most valuable and trusted IT print media in Germany, and as such are used as decision guidance by IT professionals. I can only guess on clamav's german users count, but I think it is really important for clamav to get good press in Germany.
Thomas
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